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		<title>SCRAPS (things I would like to have written about)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but did not have the time to&#8230;
I would like to have blogged about this thought provoking excerpt from Russell Banks’ The Darling on the difference between empathy and sympathy.
“What was ethically and even practically wrong with having empathy towards the other? For a long time, I answered, Nothing. Nothing at all. It&#8217;s good politics. I see a blind man about to cross a street and think, He can&#8217;t see the whizzing traffic, he needs me to see it for him, to take his arm and escort him over to ...


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		<title>AFRICA: 6 answers to 6 challenges to delivering treatment as prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A response to IRIN/PlusNews list of six potholes in the road to significantly increasing HIV treatment coverage in Africa.
1. Cost:
The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has estimated that US$ 28 billion to US$ 50 billion would be needed globally every year from 2010 to 2015 in order to progressively reach universal access targets for HIV/AIDS by 2015. One-third of this will contribute towards the cost of the drugs.
The figure may sound “staggering” but it needs to be put in perspective with a few other figures such as:

The cost of ...


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		<title>More evidences supporting an earlier start for ART and Test and Treat approach for HIV prevention</title>
		<link>http://www.peripheries.org/2010/04/26/more-evidences-supporting-an-earlier-start-for-art-and-test-and-treat-approach-for-hiv-prevention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPINION. One objection against the use of ARV treatment for HIV prevention is that it puts people on treatment whilst they may clinically not need it. My first reaction to that is to ask when is it clinically relevant to treat an HIV infected person? So far the various guidelines produced are clear and based on the CD4 count. But the guidelines have changed during the years and the goalpost has been moved from below 200 to below 350 and soon to below 500 and is reaching the mean Cd4 ...


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		<title>INTERMEZZO: Sex, HIV and the politics of clean needles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this provocative TED talk and read the accompanying article at CNN.




The Compassionate Conundrum by Elizabeth Pisani

 



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		<title>UK Papal’s Visit: State sponsored homophobia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is confirmed. His Madness Benedict XVI will be visiting the United Kingdom at the invitation of PM Gordon Brown. This will be the first papal visit since another controversial catholic leader, John Paul II, came in 1982.






The frock does not make the man



The announcement came with a stern critic of the forthcoming Equality Bill that would remove the exemption given to the Catholic Church not to comply with anti-discrimination laws, particularly in the area of employment and adoption.
The Catholic Church is naturally entitled to have its own views and ...


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